“We are going to continue to terminate everybody who is going to undermine the work of the government.

"This government has had enough - we are not going to put up with these little games any more."

This government has had enough - we are not going to put up with these little games any more.

Peter O'Neill

Mr Kauba yesterday said police would respect an interim injunction against the prime minister's arrest warrant, but they were still interested in questioning Mr O'Neill.

The announcement came as the country's new police commissioner, Geoffrey Vaki, was arrested by Mr Kauba.

Mr Vaki spent several hours inside police headquarters before emerging and being escorted to the fraud office for questioning.

In a complex series of events Mr Vaki was appointed to the job after Tom Kulunga was removed by Cabinet.

Mr Kulunga is out on bail while appealing a sentence of seven months with hard labour on three contempt charges, for refusing to reinstate Mr Vaki after a court ruled the police erred in dismissing him.

It's a fundamental human yearning to be a part of something bigger than one's self, and maybe that's what drove my mate Ash to die, far from home, in a bloody foreign war against Islamic State, writes C August Elliott.